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Phlebotomy Training Schools in Packwood WA
Phlebotomy training in Packwood WA is gaining popularity in the sense that more and more students are showing interest in building a career for themselves as phlebotomists.
As a phlebotomy specialization enthusiast you need to undergo training in the science of phlebotomy so that you get placement as a phlebotomist in reputed hospitals and clinics with lucrative salary.
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Since phlebotomy is all about drawing blood in order to collect samples, you will have to be trained in the procedure whereby you draw blood from a patient without causing more pain to him or her.
In other words proper drawing of blood will cause the least amount of pain to a patient.
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If you are looking for lucrative phlebotomy careers in Packwood WA then you will be amazed to find career opportunities as phlebotomist in hospitals and blood banks.
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The demand for phlebotomy training in Packwood WA is indeed on the rise. Most phlebotomy training colleges are enrolling good number of students every year to award phlebotomy certification to them.
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Guillermo Del Toro has not had an easy time bringing his dream project, an elaborate big-budget adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness," to the multiplex. The filmmaker has spent years on the movie, which failed to receive a green light from Universal earlier this year after the studio had concerns about the cost of a project that was likely to receive an R rating for the intensity of its chills.
But Del Toro is optimistic that he might yet figure out a way to mount the story of a scientific expedition to Antarctica that yields unearthly finds. "I'm not giving up," the Oscar winner said, speaking by phone recently from Canada where he's readying his next directorial effort, the creature feature "Pacific Rim." " 'Mountains of Madness' has been with me for 13, 14 years and I really don't want to give up on it. Look, the movies I do, I stick with them when I think, well, if I don't do it, nobody will. … 'Hellboy,' if I hadn't done it, I don't think anyone would have. 'Pan's Labyrinth,' same thing. 'Mountains of Madness,' the way I plan to do it is a very peculiar take, and I think if I don't stick with it the version I would like to see would never get made."
The writer-director, who was just in town to present his new version of the 1973 telefilm "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" as the closing-night gala at the Los Angeles Film Festival, conceded that the main hurdles to "Mountains of Madness" remain the budget and the rating.
"I'd rather address the budget than the rating," Del Toro said. "The movie can perfectly someday be PG-13, but contractually I need to protect it. There's nothing in the movie that is profanity or sexual situations or any of that. But what we learned with 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark' is that sometimes intensity, the intensity of the situations, garners you the R. 'Don't Be Afraid of the Dark,' in my mind, should be a PG-13. It's several intense moments [that] got us the R — I think some of the situations at the end, I don't want to spoil it, but there are a couple of moments at the end that they deemed were too intense and I didn't want to water down the movie."
Del Toro produced and co-wrote (with Matthew Robbins) the screenplay for the new horror film, which is set for theatrical release Aug. 26 and tells the story of a precocious 10-year-old (Bailee Madison), who begins to hear creepy voices from the basement of the historic Rhode Island home where she's sent to stay with her father (Guy Pearce) and his girlfriend (Katie Holmes). First-time feature filmmaker Troy Nixey, who previously did the short "Latchkey's Lament,"- directed the movie, which was initially due out last year but ran into roadblocks because of studio wrangling.
"Pacific Rim" is scheduled to open in 2013, and after it's completed Del Toro said he has every intention of turning his attention back to Lovecraft's frigid alien landscapes. "I'm going to keep pursuing it," he said. "Universal is still really interested in doing it. Coming out of 'Pacific Rim,' I intend to see if we can do it immediately.
"I knew 'Mountains' was a long shot," he added. "In fact, it was a miracle we got that close to production."
— Gina McIntyre
Ron Howard's plan (and passion) for "Dark Tower"
"John Carter": Andrew Stanton digs into red dirt of Mars
Johnston's darker plan: 'Our Bucky isn't a sidekick'
Del Toro talks "Cronos" and "The Hobbit"
"Pan's Labyrinth," best film of its decade?
Guillermo del Toro on directing 'Maleficent': 'I would love to'
Del Toro: Filmmaking is like "hostage negotiation"
Del Toro says "Dark" is as serious "gonorrhea"
Del Toro: "Swamp Thing" among "Holy Grail" projects
The beginning of the Del Toro decade?

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Training Systems Australia Becomes Exclusive Distributor of Open Source Research Platform
Training Systems Australia Becomes Exclusive Distributor of Open Source Research Platform
BOSTON, MA--(Marketwired - Jan 14, 2014) - Rethink Robotics today announced the rollout of the Baxter Research Robot to academic and corporate researchers in Australia and New Zealand. The Company has entered into an exclusive partnership with Training Systems Australia, the leading supplier of technology-related products and training systems to universities and technical colleges in the region, to distribute the revolutionary humanoid research robot.
The Baxter Research Robot is an open source platform which allows researchers to customize a range of applications for robots and drive robotics innovation. It is already available in the U.S., Europe and Japan and has built an active and fast growing developer community.
Peter Birnbaum, Managing Director of Training Systems Australia, says, "Empowering corporate research and development teams and educating students in the field of robotics are no longer futuristic goals, but absolutely essential. Baxter is the perfect robot for researchers looking to find ways robots can be used in all areas of endeavor. Whether it is in manufacturing, assisting the incapacitated, transportation or healthcare, robots have an increasingly vital role to play in innovation and growth across many sectors."
The Baxter Research Robot runs on the global Robot Operating System (ROS) standard, allowing researchers to share and collaborate to drive innovation. Launched in April 2013, the Baxter Research Robot has been adopted by leading engineering schools across the U.S., including Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The Baxter Research Robot is also now in use at corporate R&D and innovation centers of major U.S. companies.
It was rolled out to academic and corporate researchers in the European Union in September 2013 through Rethink Robotics' official distribution partners Active Robots and Generation Robots, making the robot available in the United Kingdom, France and other countries in continental Europe. In November 2013, the Baxter Research Robot debuted in the Asian market through an exclusive partnership with Nihon Binary of Japan.
Baxter is now available for purchase in Australia and New Zealand from Training Systems Australia, who will also provide technical support in the region. Click here for more information.
About Rethink Robotics
Rethink Robotics, Inc. develops intelligent, affordable, user-friendly robots that can operate safely next to people in a wide range of manufacturing, production and R&D environments. Rethink Robotics' Baxter is the world's first interactive production robot, making manufacturers of all sizes more efficient, their workers more productive, and helping to keep jobs from emigrating to low-cost regions. The Baxter Research Robot is a humanoid robot platform with integrated sensors and an open software development kit allowing academic and corporate researchers to create custom applications. Based in the Innovation District of Boston, Massachusetts, the company is funded by Charles River Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Sigma Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Two Sigma Ventures, and Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment company of Jeff Bezos. For more information about Rethink Robotics, please visit www.rethinkrobotics.com or follow us on Twitter @rethinkrobotics.
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SOURCE: MaintenanceNet
January 07, 2013 11:00 ET
Product and Service Annuity Solutions Innovator Doubles Service Renewal Rates, Delivers Lead Generation Success to Worldwide Leader in Networking and Its Channel Partners
Product and Service Annuity Solutions Innovator Doubles Service Renewal Rates, Delivers Lead Generation Success to Worldwide Leader in Networking and Its Channel Partners
CARLSBAD, CA--(Marketwire - Jan 7, 2013) - MaintenanceNet, Inc., the leading provider of product and service annuity solutions, is pleased to announce its Auto Quote technology deployment has earned a Gold award in the Generating and Nurturing Leads category from ITSMA, the leading marketing association for technology, communications, and professional services providers. The deployment was designed and implemented by MaintenanceNet for the worldwide leader in networking and its channel partners.
ITSMA celebrated the winners of its 2012 Marketing Excellence Awards during its 19th Annual Marketing Conference in Cambridge, Mass. last month. The awards focus exclusively on technology services and solutions that help marketers increase sales effectiveness and manage the customer experience.
"This was a clever and sophisticated submission that demonstrated an excellent understanding of lead generation. What put this submission over the top was the thorough execution, great marketing elements, and concrete business results," said Dave Munn, President and CEO of ITSMA.
The Auto Quote Program was cited by ITSMA for delivering business intelligence to generate and nurture leads, uncover new revenue streams and deliver reliable customer information to extend service quotes to more than 10,000 small-to-midsize business (SMB) channel partners. Auto Quote's proactive, automated approach has more than doubled renewal rates by solving the challenges posed by an overwhelming deluge of data, enabling the networking manufacturer to close relevant renewal contracts in far greater volume while also cultivating stronger relationships with distributors, partners and customers at critical stages in the product and service lifecycle.
"When our customers succeed, we succeed, and the selection of our Auto Quote deployment by ITSMA for the Gold Award for Marketing Excellence demonstrates the power of synergy, automation and innovation across the supply chain," said Kelly Crothers, VP of Marketing for MaintenanceNet. "We'd like to congratulate our valued customer on this tremendous recognition as well as the thousands of resellers and distributors around the globe who continue to contribute to the success of our Auto Quote implementation."
First launched in 2011, Auto Quote drives millions of dollars in recurring revenue each quarter for the manufacturers, distributors and resellers that MaintenanceNet serves by automating the time-consuming task of generating service quotes for renewals and unattached products. Combining big data expertise with proven automation and cloud computing technology, the solution creates a cost-effective process for quickly identifying and closing "low-dollar" service sales opportunities. For end customers, this process ensures that valuable IT assets continue to be protected by service agreements, and for manufacturers and their partners, it translates into new revenue streams and stronger ties with customers and channel partners.
Detailed case studies on the award-winning ITSMA Marketing Excellence entries can be found online at http://www.itsma.com/pdfs/mea/2012_ITSMA_MEA_Winners.pdf.
For more information on MaintenanceNet and its complete line of product and service annuity solutions, visit www.maintenancenet.com.
Follow MaintenanceNet on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/maintenancenet and on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/maintenancenet.
About MaintenanceNet
MaintenanceNet empowers the world's leading manufacturers and their channel partners to expand the scope and success of their service sales initiatives. The company has delivered billions of dollars in service revenues, while also improving overall customer satisfaction and retention for the businesses it serves. The key to MaintenanceNet's success is its proficiency in turning incomplete or inaccurate customer data into actionable business intelligence that drives revenue and profits for manufacturers. MaintenanceNet's Service360 cloud-based platform and Auto Quote solution expedites and automates sales processes, and provides a channel-friendly approach to service quoting, ordering and renewing. For more information, visit www.maintenancenet.com or call 866-699-7212.
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Jewelry + Metals: Settings - Advanced + Basic
Course No. MET 265-365-465 Credits: 3.0
Faculty Kathy Buszkiewicz
Prerequisite(s) Jewelry + Metals: Settings
This course extends the subject as well as the processes of setting by revisiting some of the basics and presenting more advanced setting techniques including bead, reverse, flush, and tension. Basic-level techniques and materials are presented for novices. Individual investigations result in several pieces of jewelry or objects. The course addresses multiple sources for gems, and includes assistance with acquisitions. Demonstrations, samples and a visiting artist supplement the course. Open to sophomore Jewelry + Metals majors all electives. Prerequisite: MET 262 Jewelry + Metals: Settings.
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Good news for schools that miss AYP by just one subgroup:
the "ALL students" subgroup, but not in one or more of the other
subgroups would be placed in the 'focused' category, while schools
that fail to meet state standards in the "ALL students" subgroup
would be identified as 'comprehensive.'
Illinoisreceives additional flexibility to help schools meet federal NCLB requirements
of 6 states accepted into new U.S.
Dept. of Education pilot program;
targets low-performing schools earlier with tailored resources
Springfield — Illinois State Superintendent of
Education Christopher A. Koch announced today that Illinois has been chosen to
participate in a federal pilot program to provide additional flexibility and
tools to assist schools in meeting federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements.
The U.S. Department of Education selected Illinois as one of six states to participate
in the new pilot program that allows the Illinois State Board of Education
(ISBE) to focus additional resources and efforts on schools and districts
across the state with targeted efforts.
"Our state testing data shows that there are many
different reasons why schools fail to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
measures. Current NCLB guidelines are one-size-fits-all, and treating all
schools the same is not an effective approach, just as treating each student
the same is not effective," said Supt. Koch. "With this additional
flexibility we will be able to identify and focus our efforts on the students
that need it the most. I'm excited about this opportunity to take more
immediate action to improve our lowest-performing schools."
With the U.S. Department of Education's
'Differentiated Accountability' pilot program, ISBE can use
different strategies, providing additional resources, techniques and approaches
to help all students succeed. Illinois'
approval is conditioned on demonstrating that state assessments administered in
2007-08 are fully compliant with NCLB. The overarching goal of NCLB is for all
students to meet or exceed standards in reading and mathematics by 2014.
Because of the flexibility, low-performing schools in Illinois will begin
offering additional tutoring earlier to students. Currently, schools that fail
to make AYP in the same subject area two consecutive years must offer public
school choice (PSC) and tutoring services after three years. Under the pilot,
schools will offer either school choice or tutoring after failing to make AYP
for two consecutive years and both options after failing for three consecutive
With school choice, students must be given the option to
attend a public school that is not identified for improvement. However, in
smaller districts, this option isn't always available to students. By
implementing tutoring as an earlier option, students will have access to
additional services such as academic assistance in reading and math, to take
place before school, after school or during the summer.
Also, ISBE will be able to differentiate between
low-performing schools under the new pilot program. Schools and districts will
continue to move through the process of improvement each year they do not make
AYP, however, instead of all schools failing to meet state standards being
labeled as in 'need of improvement', under the new system, schools
and districts will be classified as either in the 'focused' or
'comprehensive' category. Schools and districts that make AYP in
the "ALL students" subgroup, but not in one or more of the other
subgroups would be placed in the 'focused' category, while schools
that fail to meet state standards in the "ALL students" subgroup
would be identified as 'comprehensive.'
testing data shows that schools in the 'comprehensive' category are
achieving lower than those in the 'focused' category and would
greatly benefit more from intensive and specific interventions. In addition,
ISBE would also eliminate 'corrective action' as a school
designation of improvement. The corrective designation for schools will be
replaced with a third year of either 'focused school improvement'
or 'comprehensive school improvement so that interventions have longer to
The state's lowest-performing schools will also be
eligible to participate in an intensive 'Priority Schools'
initiative. This initiative aims to make drastic changes that produce
significant achievement gains as quickly as possible.
The five other states approved for the pilot include Florida, Georgia,
Indiana, Maryland
and Ohio. A
total of 17 states submitted proposals for the program. Each state's
proposal, including Illinois',
was reviewed by a panel of nationally recognized experts. In return for the
additional flexibility, each state has to commit to building their capacity for
school reform; take the most significant actions for the lowest-performing
schools, including addressing the issue of teacher effectiveness; and use data
to determine the method of differentiation and categories of intervention.
ISBE will begin implementing portions of the proposal
during the 2008-09 school year with full implementation in the 2009-10
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Today, we protest the incompetence, inefficiency and injustice of the agencies charged with ensuring the safety and security of all people in South Africa. We demand real and sustained action to build safe communities and ensure justice for victims of crime.
We are brought together by the case of Zoliswa Nkonyana, a 19-year-old, openly lesbian who was murdered on 6 February 2006. The escape of four of the suspects last week from the Khayelitsha Magistrate's court is only the most recent incident in the on-going struggle to hold her attackers to account, and find justice for the deceased and her family. Nkonyana's case, and the others outlined below, reveals a series of chronic problems with the justice system that demand to be addressed by both provincial and national government.
Activists to call a Day of Action on Tuesday September 28 in at least 20 African cities, and supported by groups around the world, to fully fund the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Maternal health and child mortality Millennium Development Goals in many countries can only be met if AIDS, TB and malaria are addressed and the Global Fund replenished with $20 billion over the next two weeks, say activists. "All countries should play their role. Contributions are needed from all governments, including lower-income countries, who have a duty to prioritise health. But the urgent priority right now is to replenish the Global Fund to put the world on track to meet the health MDGs," said Paula Akugizibwe from the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA).
The Social Justice Coalition, Treatment Action Campaign, Equal Education, Free Gender, AIDS Legal Network, Luleka Lisizwe and Triangle Project are community-based organisations located in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Our organisations seek to address wide-ranging problems faced by our members – from inadequate sanitation and education, to HIV/TB and homophobia. Though our organisations remain focused on different campaigns, we are compelled by circumstance to express the common conviction that many victims of crime in Khayelitsha do not have adequate access to justice. Access to justice is a right guaranteed by our constitution. To protest this failing we will be staging a picket to call for an investigation into discrepancies in the cases our organisations have been following. We will focus specifically on the case of Zoliswa Nkonyana and call for a judicial investigation into the failures in the administration of justice in Khayelitsha.
On September 21st 2010 Chinese activist Tian Xi will go on trial in Henan Province charged with "suspicion of intentional destruction to property." Tian Xi is HIV positive and was infected with HIV as a child as a result of a blood transfusion at the time when thousands of people in Henan and other provinces were infected with HIV through state-sponsored blood selling programs in the 1990s. In an unprecedented action, activists from across China will attend Tian Xi's trial to express solidarity with him. The Treatment Action Campaign calls on UNAIDS and civil society organisations worldwide to monitor the trial of Tian Xi and to issue statements calling for his immediate release. We call for UNAIDS executive director, Michel Sidibe, to urgently intervene to secure Tian Xi's release.
A call to action by the Treatment Action Campaign
The Global Fund will hold its third Voluntary Replenishment Conference on 4-5 October. Governments and donors must ensure that sufficient funding is made available to the Global Fund to support universal access to HIV and TB treatment, prevention and care. From 20 - 28 September, TAC will be participating in the global week of action. During this week HIV activists, public health experts, concerned citizens and communities will carry out a number of actions globally to pressure governments to commit to full replenishment of the Global Fund.
This newsletter contains briefings and letters developed by TAC outlining the importance of full replenishment of the Global Fund, what you can do to get involved as well as letters sent by TAC to governments and responses received. Also included is a briefing by TAC and SECTION27, incorporating the AIDS Law Project, on the Financial Transaction Tax.
The risk of dying if you have multi-drug-resistant (MDR) or extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB is very high. Data presented at last year's Conference on Retroviruses showed that 69% of patients died within one year of presenting with MDR TB in Tugela Ferry. For XDR TB it was even worse at 82%. Over time, deaths for patients with MDR TB declined from 87% to 45% but there was no significant decline in deaths for patients with XDR TB. Several new promising drugs are being developed for TB includingTMC207 and OPC-67683 - these drugs are in different stages of development. There are compelling reasons to expand access to these experimental drugs given the high risk of death of patients with drug resistant TB.
A week into the public sector strike the Treatment Action Campaign and SECTION27 regret that no agreement has been reached between striking public service workers and the government. We support the demands of workers and their right to strike. But we regret the growing polarisation, pain and loss of life. This is now a political crisis that requires political leadership and a solution.
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We publish correspondence between the TAC and the Kwazulu-Natal Provincial Government about the Tara KLamp, an unsafe circumcision device that the Kwazulu-Natal Department of Health has used in approximately 1,000 circumcisions.
To develop the systems and capacity within TAC to measure and verify data for purposes of populating TAC's M&E performance management framework with baseline data and routinely collecting data on the outputs and outcomes to which TAC contributes.
This is the first edition of a report that TAC will produce quarterly. The report assesses TAC's work in supporting the implementation of the NSP through identifying what has been achieved, lessons learnt, further gaps in policy, and opportunities at district level. The first report covers activities and campaigns from March – May 2010. TAC will develop subsequent reports in collaboration with SECTION27 (incorporating theAIDS Law Project).


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Congressional hopefuls talk issues
Joel Gill and Gregg Harper sounded a lot alike as they addressed some 70 people in a town hall meeting at the Starkville Sportsplex on Saturday — both stressed the need for a change in Congress.
Gill, a Democrat, and Harper, the Republican incumbent, each spent about 30 minutes taking questions from audience members during Saturday's event, which was sponsored by the Starkville TEA Party.
"You've brought that spirit from 200 years ago to the forefront once again," said Gill directly to TEA Party members. "You are trying to send a message to Congress. We need to vote them out and start fresh."
Harper said much of the nation is unhappy with the policies of President Barack Obama's administration and that of congressional leaders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
"You can get comfortable up there if you are not careful," Harper said. "We must not let the encroachment of personal rights by the federal government that is occurring to continue. The health care bill is a prime example. It is a disaster for our country."
Illegal immigration
A key issue raised by audience members at Saturday's meeting was enforcement of illegal immigration laws. Both Gill and Harper agreed that amnesty for illegal immigrants should not be allowed and what has been viewed as a controversial move by Arizona officials to guard that state's borders.
"I am opposed to grant illegal immigrants any amnesty that grants them a pathway to citizenship. I believe government is wrong in opposing Arizona when that state is trying to enforce the federal laws already on books," Gill said.
"It is clear that the administration has been dragged kicking and screaming to secure the borders of this nation. It is a matter of national security," Harper said.
The health care bill
The oft-debated health care bill is one where Gill and Harper do have some differences.
"Some provisions of that bill are good, while some need to be repealed," Gill said. "It does concern me that legislation is being passed that has not been explained to the people."
Harper said he supports a repeal of the health care bill, but knows it will not happen unless voters elect a Republican president and Republican majority in both houses of Congress.
"I signed off on some repeal legislation that will never see the light of day under Nancy Pelosi," Harper said. "We're talking about a bill that will keep people from getting health insurance and keep doctors from taking on new Medicare patients."
The stimulus bill
The federal stimulus legislation is another area where Gill and Harper lock horns.
Gill said he supports the bill because of the needed infrastructure improvements that the stimulus funding was able to cover.
"We're spending to improve infrastructure across America. Mr. Harper felt it was not right right to vote for a stimulus bill that provides infrastructure," Gill said.
Harper said his main concern with the stimulus bill was that the federal government did not have the funding to support the $800 billion in mandates.
"Many communities have benefitted from the stimulus bill, but it's like getting a cash advance on a Visa credit card — you still have to go back and pay for it," Harper said.
"We don't have the money to pay for it."
Other issues
Harper and Gill both oppose the current moratorium on oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the BP disaster, primarily due to the trickle-down effect it will have on Mississippi families and communities.
"I support the moratorium until the safety issues are settled," Gill said. "I don't think it should be in place indefinitely. Far too many people in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama depend on those jobs."
Harper and Gill also responded to questions on gun registration, Social Security, abortion and party-line voting during Saturday's town hall meeting.
They will meet each other on the ballot for the Nov. 2 general election.
More information about both candidates and their stances on various issues may be found on their respective campaign websites at http:///www.gillforcongress.org or http://www.GreggHarper.ms.


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Fresh off the international presses, the Indonesian town of Lhokseumawe (population 170,000) aims to pass a regulation that would forbid women from straddling a motorcycle while a passenger on a male-riden motorbike. The town's mayor, Suaidi Yahya, says the regulation aims to save people's "morals and behaviors" — unsurprisingly, Lhokseumawe resides in the only region of Indonesia that follows Sharia law.
The regulation will now mean that women need to sit side-saddle when a passenger on a motorcycle, though it would seem that the regulation doesn't apply if another women is driving the motorcycle. According to Mayor Suaidi, women can still sit straddled on the motorcycle when they are riding alone, assuming they are appropriately dressed.


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Most lawyers continue to believe the myth that they must work in close physical proximity to collaborate on client matters and sustain their firm culture. But if you tell clients that your firm assembles the best team for their matters, how can you argue that the lawyers must show up in one centralized downtown office? Some colleagues–the best ones for this client's matter—may well be in another city. As for culture, notwithstanding Woody Allen's remark that 70 percent of life is just showing up, simply being in the same place is neither necessary nor sufficient.
This is not a push to do away with downtown central offices. Instead, firms can offer the option to work at home or in a low-cost suburban satellite office part of the week. This reduces both commuting time and the carbon load. Have lawyers come to the central office when they actually need to collaborate in person. Wow, what a concept: Scheduling time for real collaboration instead of pretending it just happens every day spontaneously. Firms that do so may even find that sharing offices downtown becomes viable, which can dramatically lower occupancy cost.
Some firms allow this flexibility already. And some start-ups are actually built on the idea of working virtually, such as the California-based Virtual Law Partners and Optim Legal in Australia.
Of course, in the current crisis, firms are shrinking, not growing. They are retaining too many lawyers, not losing enough. So the need for space or to accommodate demands for work-life balance may seem remote. Yet now is exactly the right time to make difficult changes. A firm that sets out today to optimize how and where its lawyers work and announces what it is doing publicly signals to clients and recruits that it's in business for the long term. Most importantly, it will be better positioned for the inevitable economic turnaround.


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I suffer from chronic dandruff and it's a very embarrassing condition. So embarrassing that in the 7 years I've been blogging, I've never discussed it. But I recently tried a new line of hair care products that I'm so excited about that I just had to break my silence.
A few months ago, I was in CVS walking through the beauty section – and some cool new products from Head & Shoulders stopped me in my tracks. I was kind of in a rush and didn't have time to read the backs of the bottles, so I took a photo with my iPhone so that I would remember to investigate later.
When I returned home that afternoon, there was a FedEx box on my front step. Inside was a bunch of beauty goodies for me to review…including two of the Head & Shoulders products I spied in the store. Turns out the brand has a new collection called Moisture Care, which "delivers enriched moisture for scalp and textured hair." The product lineup includes a Shampoo, 2-in-1, Conditioner/"Co-Wash" and a "Scalp Soother." (more…)


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Remember that new New York City pizza tour service I told you about early last month? The one that my buddy Scott Wiener is putting together? At that point the tour was but a twinkle of olive oil in Scott's eye. Now his New York pizza tour site has launched and is selling tix.
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In the autumn of 1972, arriving in Lebanon as a graduate student at the American University of Beirut, I discovered radical student politics. The mainly Palestinian-led student movements were only a few years behind Paris and New York, and strikes were common. When police raided sit-ins, students sang "We Shall Overcome." Discussions went on all night. Caffeine, alcohol, tobacco and hashish stimulated self-criticism sessions and persuaded many a young woman to hasten the revolution in bed. One of the more urgent debates was whether the Palestinians should choose a secular, democratic state in all of Palestine-Israel or content themselves with a truncated Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It did not occur to anyone that the Palestinians' pop-gun war on Israel's northern border was unlikely to compel the Israeli government to offer either option. Still, the talking went on. And on.
A friend took me to his aunt's house in one of the refugee camps for the Arabs expelled from Palestine in 1948. The young man in the photograph atop her television, beaming a kind of innocent hope, was her son. He had died the month before in the Black September kidnapping of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich. My friend and I used to go to a tailor's shop near the synagogue in Wadi Abou Jamil, Beirut's Jewish Quarter. The tailor gave us Turkish coffee and joked with my friend about Palestine. When my friend was 2 years old, in 1948, his mother had carried him on her back from their village in Galilee over the border into Lebanon. When they left, the Israelis bulldozed his village and hundreds of others–lest the refugees have anything to return to. The tailor, who was born in Lebanon, said he would never leave. The fact that he could move to Israel anytime, while my friend could not even visit, made him laugh. The two exchanged jocular ethnic abuse with an ease unknown to me in California, where race could be a touchy issue. Today, neither one lives in Lebanon.
Wadi Abou Jamil was a curving road of old, rickety apartment buildings with shops and cafes on the ground floor. The lovely synagogue in those days seemed as poorly attended as churches and mosques. At the eastern edge of what would later be Muslim West Beirut, the Jewish Quarter became vulnerable in the civil war that began in April 1975. No one wanted to destroy it. On the contrary, Yasir Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization and the Christian Phalangists fought each other to defend it–Arafat to prove his movement was not anti-Semitic and the Phalange to ingratiate itself with Israel. The losers, as often elsewhere in the world, were the Jews. Their abandoned houses gave shelter after 1982 to Lebanese Shiite Muslims, who had been displaced by Israeli bombardment and occupation.
Very old men, red tarbooshes tottering on their wizened heads, looked on the young generation with skepticism. Coffeehouse politics, nightclubs and relaxed sexual mores offended their honor. It had been bad enough when their mothers renounced the veil fifty years earlier, but daughters unfastening their bras were too much. The old politicians' collaboration with imperialism, their tawdry compromises and their betrayal of independence repelled the children. Youth's insistence on change brought it all down–the tar- booshes as much as the coffeehouse debates, the revolutionary aspirations as well as the Levantine compromises and mixing of peoples. The war it produced let religion out of church and mosque, twisting a political battle into a struggle between Jesus and Mohammed that could not be contained within the borders of Lebanon. The freedom fighters on both sides destroyed the fabric of the downtown gathering places of all communities–the ancient souks, smoky restaurants, trading companies and cafes. People and ideas were segregated by a north-south Green Line, crossed only by bullets and artillery shells. Of course, the war among the Lebanese was also a series of wars by proxy between Israel and Syria, Israel and the Palestinians and Syria and the Palestinians.


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Nutrition research writer Sayer Ji is founder and chair of GreenMedInfo.com – a consumer advocacy site offering 'the world's largest natural medicine database,' with a searchable index linking to more than 19,800 biomedical study abstracts. This article, first published May 23, 2012, is reproduced with kind permission from Sayer Ji. ©2012 GreenMedInfo.com all rights reserved.
Magnesium's Importance Far Greater Than Previously Imagined
Calcium deficiency is a common nutritional concern, but how many folks consider the vital importance of magnesium in human health and disease?
New research published in the journal BMC Bioinformatics indicates that magnesium's role in human health and disease is far more significant and complicated than previously imagined.
While it is well known that all living things require magnesium, andthat it is found in over 300 enzymes in the human body, including those enzymes utilizing or synthesizing ATP (the molecular unit of currency for energy transfer), the new study, titled "3,751 Magnesium Binding Sites Have Been Detected on Human Proteins," indicates that a deficiency of magnesium may profoundly affect a far wider range of biological structures than previously understood.(1)
The proteome, or entire set of proteins expressed by the human genome, contains well over 100,000 distinct protein structures, despite the fact that there are believed to be only 20,300 protein-coding genes in the human genome.
The discovery of the "magnesome," as its being called, adds additional complexity to the picture, indicating that the presence or absence of adequate levels of this basic mineral may epigenetically alter the expression and behavior of the proteins in our body, thereby altering the course of both health and disease.
Indeed, modern medicine and nutrition fixates primarily on calcium deficiency (due, in part, to the World Health Organization's highly unscientific definition of osteoporosis), even in the face of accumulating peer-reviewed research indicating that excess calcium consumption can greatly increase cardiac morbidity and mortality.
Magnesium Research
Research relevant to magnesium has been accumulating for the past 40 years at a steady rate of approximately 2,000 new studies a year. Our database project has indexed well over 100 health benefits of magnesium thus far. [The free GreenMedInfo membership option allows access to all abstracts in the searchable database.]
For the sake of brevity, we will address seven key therapeutic applications for magnesium as follows:
Not only is magnesium deficiency common in those diagnosed with fibromyalgia,(2,3) but relatively low doses of magnesium (50 mg), combined with malic acid in the form of magnesium malate, has been clinically demonstrated to improve pain and tenderness in those to which it was administered.(4)
Atrial Fibrillation
A number of studies now exist showing that magnesium supplementation reduce atrial fibrillation, either by itself, or in combination with conventional drug agents.(5)
Diabetes, Type 2 ('Adult Onset')
Magnesium deficiency is common in type 2 diabetics, at an incidence of 13.5% to 47.7% according to a 2007 study.(6) Research has also shown that type 2 diabetics with peripheral neuropathy and coronary artery disease have lower intracellular magnesium levels.(7)
Oral magnesium supplementation has been shown to reduce plasma fasting glucose and raising HDL cholesterol in patients with type 2 diabetes.(8) It has also been shown to improve insulin sensitivity and metabolic control in type 2 diabetic subjects.(9)
Premenstrual Syndrome
Magnesium deficiency has been observed in women affected by premenstrual syndrome.(10) It is no surprise therefore that it has been found to alleviate premenstrual symptoms of fluid retention,(11) as well as broadly reducing associated symptoms by approximately 34% in women, aged 18-45, given 250 mg tablets for a 3-month observational period.(12)
When combined with B6, magnesium supplementation has been found to improve anxiety-related premenstrual symptoms.(13)
Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality
Low serum magnesium concentrations predict cardiovascular and all-cause mortality.(14) There are a wide range of ways that magnesium may confer its protective effects.
• It may act like a calcium channel blocker [relaxing blood vessels and increasing blood & oxygen supply to the heart],(15)
• It is hypotensive [blood pressure lowering],(16)
• It is antispasmodic (which may protect against coronary artery spasm),(17)
• And anti-thrombotic [interferes with blood clot formation].(18)
Also, the heart muscle cells are exceedingly dense in mitochondria (as high as 100 times more per cell than skeletal muscle) – the "powerhouses" of the cell" – which require adequate magnesium to produce ATP via the citric acid cycle. [The process of breaking down amino acids, glucose, and fatty acids to generate energy.]
Migraine Disorders
Blood magnesium levels have been found to be significantly lower in those who suffer from migraine attacks.(19,20)
A recent Journal of Neural Transmission article titled "Why all migraine patients should be treated with magnesium," pointed out that routine blood tests do not accurately convey the true body magnesium stores since:
• Less than 2% is in the measurable, extracellular space,
• "67% is in the bone,
• And 31% is located intracellularly."(21)
The authors argued that since "routine blood tests are not indicative of magnesium status, empiric treatment with at least oral magnesium is warranted in all migraine sufferers."
Indeed, oral magnesium supplementation has been found to reduce the number of headache days in children experiencing frequent migranous headaches,(22) and when combined with L-carnitine, is effective at reducing migraine frequency in adults, as well.(23)
While natural aging is a healthy process, accelerated aging has been noted to be a feature of magnesium deficiency,(24) especially evident in the context of long space-flight missions where low magnesium levels are associated with cardiovascular aging over 10 times faster than occurs on earth.(25)
Magnesium supplementation has been shown to reverse age-related neuroendocrine and sleep EEG changes in humans.(26)
One of the possible mechanisms behind magnesium deficiency associated aging is that magnesium is needed to stabilize DNA and promotes DNA replication. It is also involved in healing up of the ends of the chromosomes [telomeres] after they are divided in mitosis.(27)
Best Sources of Magnesium in The Diet
The best source of magnesium is from food, and one way to identify magnesium-containing foods are those which are green, i.e. chlorophyll rich. Chlorophyll, which enable plants to capture solar energy and convert it into metabolic energy, has a magnesium atom at its center. Without magnesium, in fact, plants could not utilize the sun's light energy.
Magnesium, however, in its elemental form is colorless, and many foods that are not green contain it as well. The point is that when found complexed with food cofactors, it is absorbed and utilized more efficiently than in its elemental form, say, extracted from limestone in the form of magnesium oxide.
The following foods contain exceptionally high amounts of magnesium. The portions described are 100 grams, or a little over three ounces.
Rice bran, crude (781 mg)
Seaweed, agar, dried (770 mg)
Chives, freeze-dried (640 mg)
Spice, coriander leaf, dried (694 mg)
Seeds, pumpkin, dried (535 mg)
Cocoa, dry powder, unsweetened (499 mg)
Spices, basil, dried (422 mg)
Seeds, flaxseed (392 mg)
Spices, cumin seed (366 mg)
Nuts, brazil nuts, dried (376 mg)
Parsley, freeze-dried (372 mg)
Seeds, sesame meal (346 mg)
Nut, almond butter (303 mg)
Nuts, cashew nuts, roasted (273 mg)
Soy flour, defatted (290 mg)
Whey, sweet, dried (176 mg)
Bananas, dehydrated (108 mg)
Millet, puffed (106 mg)
Shallots, freeze-dried (104 mg)
Leeks, freeze-dried (156 mg)
Fish, salmon, raw (95 mg)
Onions, dehydrated flakes (92 mg)
Kale, scotch, raw (88 mg)
Fortunately, for those who need higher doses, or are not inclined to consume magnesium rich foods, there are supplemental forms commonly available on the market. Keep in mind, for those who wish to take advantage of the side benefit of magnesium therapy, namely, its stool softening and laxative properties, magnesium citrate or oxide will provide this additional feature.
For those looking to maximize absorption and bioavailability magnesium glycinate is ideal, as glycine is the smallest amino acid commonly found chelated to magnesium, and therefore highly absorbable.
1. Damiano Piovesan, Giuseppe Profiti, Pier Luigi Martelli, Rita Casadio. 3,751 magnesium binding sites have been detected on human proteins. BMC Bioinformatics. 2012 ;13 Suppl 14:S10. Epub 2012 Sep 7. PMID: 23095498
2. G Moorkens, B Manuel y Keenoy, J Vertommen, S Meludu, M Noe, I De Leeuw. Magnesium deficit in a sample of the Belgian population presenting with chronic fatigue. Magnes Res. 1997 Dec;10(4):329-37. PMID: 9513929
3. J Eisinger, A Plantamura, P A Marie, T Ayavou. Selenium and magnesium status in fibromyalgia. Magnes Res. 1994 Dec;7(3-4):285-8. PMID: 7786692
4. I J Russell, J E Michalek, J D Flechas, G E Abraham. Treatment of fibromyalgia syndrome with Super Malic: a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled, crossover pilot study. J Rheumatol. 1995 May;22(5):953-8. PMID: 8587088
5. GreenMedInfo.com, Atrial Fibrillation and Magnesium (5 studies)
6. Phuong-Chi T Pham, Phuong-Mai T Pham, Son V Pham, Jeffrey M Miller, Phuong-Thu T Pham . Hypomagnesemia in patients with type 2 diabetes. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2007 Mar;2(2):366-73. Epub 2007 Jan 3. PMID: 17699436
7. M de Lordes Lima, T Cruz, J C Pousada, L E Rodrigues, K Barbosa, V Canguçu. The effect of magnesium supplementation in increasing doses on the control of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care. 1998 May;21(5):682-6. PMID: 9589224
8. Y Song, K He, E B Levitan, J E Manson, S Liu. Effects of oral magnesium supplementation on glycaemic control in Type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis of randomized double-blind controlled trials. Cardiovasc Toxicol. 2008;8(3):115-25. Epub 2008 Jul 8. PMID: 16978367
9. Martha Rodríguez-Morán, Fernando Guerrero-Romero. Oral magnesium supplementation improves insulin sensitivity and metabolic control in type 2 diabetic subjects: a randomized double-blind controlled trial. Diabetes Care. 2003 Apr;26(4):1147-52. PMID: 12663588
10. F Facchinetti, P Borella, G Sances, L Fioroni, R E Nappi, A R Genazzani. Oral magnesium successfully relieves premenstrual mood changes. Obstet Gynecol. 1991 Aug;78(2):177-81. PMID: 2067759
11. A F Walker, M C De Souza, M F Vickers, S Abeyasekera, M L Collins, L A Trinca. Magnesium supplementation alleviates premenstrual symptoms of fluid retention. J Womens Health. 1998 Nov;7(9):1157-65. PMID: 9861593
12. S Quaranta, M A Buscaglia, M G Meroni, E Colombo, S Cella. Pilot study of the efficacy and safety of a modified-release magnesium 250 mg tablet (Sincromag) for the treatment of premenstrual syndrome. Am J Gastroenterol. 2008 Dec;103(12):2972-6. PMID: 17177579
13. M C De Souza, A F Walker, P A Robinson, K Bolland. A synergistic effect of a daily supplement for 1 month of 200 mg magnesium plus 50 mg vitamin B6 for the relief of anxiety-related premenstrual symptoms: a randomized, double-blind, crossover study. J Womens Health Gend Based Med. 2000 Mar;9(2):131-9. PMID: 10746516
14. Thorsten Reffelmann, Till Ittermann, Marcus Dörr, Henry Völzke, Markus Reinthaler, Astrid Petersmann, Stephan B Felix. Low serum magnesium concentrations predict cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. Atherosclerosis. 2011 Jun 12. Epub 2011 Jun 12. PMID: 21703623
15. Andrea Rosanoff, Mildred S Seelig. Comparison of mechanism and functional effects of magnesium and statin pharmaceuticals. J Am Coll Nutr. 2004 Oct;23(5):501S-505S. PMID: 15466951
16. GreenMedInfo.com, Magnesium's Hypotensive Properties.
17. GreenMedInfo.com, Magnesium's Antispasmodic Properties .
18. Joen R Sheu, George Hsiao, Ming Y Shen, Yen M Lee, Mao H Yen . Antithrombotic effects of magnesium sulfate in in vivo experiments. Int J Hematol. 2003 May;77(4):414-9. PMID: 12774935
19. Afshin Samaie, Nabiollah Asghari, Raheb Ghorbani, Jafar Arda. Blood Magnesium levels in migraineurs within and between the headache attacks: a case control study. Pan Afr Med J. 2012 ;11:46. Epub 2012 Mar 15. PMID: 22593782
20. Mahnaz Talebi, Dariush Savadi-Oskouei, Mehdi Farhoudi, Solmaz Mohammadzade, Seyyedjamal Ghaemmaghamihezaveh, Akbar Hasani, Amir Hamdi. Relation between serum magnesium level and migraine attacks. Neurosciences (Riyadh). 2011 Oct ;16(4):320-3. PMID: 21983373
21. Alexander Mauskop, Jasmine Varughese. Why all migraine patients should be treated with magnesium. J Neural Transm. 2012 May ;119(5):575-9. Epub 2012 Mar 18. PMID: 22426836
22. Fong Wang, Stephen K Van Den Eeden, Lynn M Ackerson, Susan E Salk, Robyn H Reince, Ronald J Elin. Oral magnesium oxide prophylaxis of frequent migrainous headache in children: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Eur J Endocrinol. 2009 Apr;160(4):611-7. Epub 2009 Jan 29. PMID: 12786918
23. Ali Tarighat Esfanjani, Reza Mahdavi, Mehrangiz Ebrahimi Mameghani, Mahnaz Talebi, Zeinab Nikniaz, Abdolrasool Safaiyan. The effects of magnesium, L-carnitine, and concurrent magnesium-L-carnitine supplementation in migraine prophylaxis. Biol Trace Elem Res. 2012 Dec ;150(1-3):42-8. Epub 2012 Aug 17. PMID: 22895810
24. David W Killilea, Jeanette A M Maier. A connection between magnesium deficiency and aging: new insights from cellular studies. Magnes Res. 2008 Jun;21(2):77-82. PMID: 18705534
25. GreenMedInfo.com, What We Learned From The Accelerated Aging of Astronauts
26. Katja Held, I A Antonijevic, H Künzel, M Uhr, T C Wetter, I C Golly, A Steiger, H Murck. Oral Mg(2+) supplementation reverses age-related neuroendocrine and sleep EEG changes in humans. Pharmacopsychiatry. 2002 Jul;35(4):135-43. PMID: 12163983
27. William J Rowe. Correcting magnesium deficiencies may prolong life. Clin Interv Aging. 2012 ;7:51-4. Epub 2012 Feb 16. PMID: 22379366
* Disclaimer: This information (©2012 GreenMedInfo.com. All Rights Reserved) has not been reviewed by the FDA. It is general information, based on the research of Sayer Ji unless otherwise noted; and does not necessarily reflect the views of GreenMedInfo or its staff, or that of ProHealth, Inc. It is not intended as medical advice, or for prevention, diagnosis or treatment for any condition, illness or disease; and is not meant to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified healthcare professional. It is always very important that you make no change in your healthcare plan or health support regimen without researching and discussing it in collaboration with your professional healthcare team.


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Indianapolis Colts linebacker Erik Walden was given an unnecessary roughness penalty after head-butting Tennessee Titans tight end Delanie Walker, reports NFL.com.
With the Titans leading 14-3 in the second quarter, Walker was the victim of an unprovoked attack, after seeing his helmet ripped off by Walden, who proceeded to launch into the helmet-less Colts star.
Walker hardly helped the situation, after immediately throwing a punch in Walden's direction, in reaction to having his helmet taken off.
By NFL rules, both players should have been ejected from the game, but after referees failed to spot either the initial altercation or the melee that ensued, both Walker and Walden remained on the field of play.
The Colts gave up 27 yards on back-to-back unnecessary roughness penalties, which allowed the Titans to kick a field goal, extending their lead by a further three points at the halfway stage.
"What got him riled up? I was whupping his butt, that's what happened, and the cat couldn't take it when he was getting whupped," reflected Walker in an interview with Jim Wyatt after the game.
"He got frustrated, and he should have been ejected for what he did. That's bush league and that's the type of stuff we don't need in this league.
"I threw a punch at him; I'm not going to lie about that. It's on film. But that was just a reaction. You head butt me in the face because I am beating you? C'mon."
The Titans ended Thursday's clash on the wrong side of a 30-27 defeat against the Colts, but Walker is adamant he will get his own back on Walden.
"I whupped on him the whole game, and I'm going to whup on him again in two weeks," he added. "We are not cool. That type of stuff doesn't belong in the NFL."
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"I am very excited about the direction and culture of our program, and grateful for the opportunity we've been given at Gardner-Webb," said Holtmann. "We have seen tremendous growth all three of our years here, it was just a little more noticeable this past season with 21 wins and a postseason berth.
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